Office 365

Office 365 is a subscription-based service from Microsoft intended to provide the latest versions of the Microsoft Office suite. This is provided for free while you are an active employee or student and can be accessed through a web browser (similarly to Google Docs), or installed as a suite of applications.

Getting started

Microsoft provides in depth training and instructions across the various platforms like Windows, MacOS, Android, iPhone, etc. Please see the following links for more details.

General Office 365

Quick start
A brief overview of Office 365 and what it provides.
Get started
Learn a bit more about the Office platform and how to sign in.
Create and save
Using the desktop & web apps, and how to save files to the cloud.
Share and collaborate & Best practices for collaborating
Learn to share and co-author files in Office 365.
Additional features and tools
Get design ideas and suggestions for grammar and style.
Password Reset
How to register for resetting your password.

Application how-to guides

Installation guides

FAQ

Below are some quick answers for the most commonly asked questions.

No - the full Office 365 suite is provided for free while you are an active employee or student.

Professor Emeritus and Alumni will retain email access.

The latest versions of the Office suite such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

You are also provided with 1TB of storage via OneDrive to store your documents and files.

Office 365 can be downloaded and installed on Windows PCs, Macs, tablets, and phones.

There are also web-based versions of most applications which run entirely in your web browser and require no installation (similar to Google Docs and G-Suite) but may lack some advanced features from the desktop client.

For more information, please see the following Microsoft article:

Office 365 Web vs Desktop apps feature comparison

Office 365 is a “rolling” release and is always the latest version of Office from Microsoft. It will always have the most up to date features and support of their product line.

For more details, please see the following Microsoft article:

What's the difference between Office 365 and Office 2019?

You can sign in by going to portal.office.com in your web browser.